Learning Express

Learning Express: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

E-Book & Audio

Library E-Books, Audio Books and Magazines are available for download.

Download E-Books and Audio 

Find a Job

Find a job using Glassdoor.

Repair a Car

ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site

Looking for car values? Try Kelly Blue Book Online

Novelist: A Reader’s Advisory

NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations for all ages. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

NoveList K-8 Plus is a trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents & teachers can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

Early Newspaper of Independence

Early Independence newspapers are now online and searchable through the Historic Oregon Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon.
Titles that have been added include:  Issues beyond 1922 are not included in the Historic Newspaper database. Date ranges vary by title.

The Independence Enterprise, the Independence West Side, the West Side Enterprise, and the Independence Monitor

To search individual titles, visit the Historic Newspapers Search Page.

Digitization of these newspapers was made possible by grants from the Polk County Cultural Coalition and matching funding from the Friends of the Independence Public Library.

Magazine & Database

Alphabetical list of available resources

Academic OneFile: Peer reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Updated daily.

Agriculture Collection: Broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields – from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
Business Collection: provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Business Insights Global: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries
Business Economics: Academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics.
Chilton Library: Automobile repair information.
Communication & Mass Media: Information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include advertising, public relations, literature and writing.
Computer Database: Find computer-related product information, news and reviews.  Includes information on hardware, software, electronics, engineering and communications.
Criminal Justice: 150 Journals covering all aspects of criminal justice.

Culinary Arts: 150 major cooking and nutrition magazines.  Thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews and industry information.

Diversity Studies Collection: A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.

Educator’s Reference: More than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for educators at all levels.Covers multiple levels of educations from preschool to college. Incudes full text for many of the journals in the ERIC database.

Environmental Studies: Covers environmental issues and police.  Nearly 200 journals providing access to multiple viewpoints.

Fine Arts & Music: More than 100 full-text magazines and journals focusing on areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Encyclopedias and reference resources.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture: Journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping and other areas of horticulture.

Gender Studies Collection: Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society.

General OneFile: Start here for you search on general topics.  Includes a collection of over 6,500 publications.

General Science Collection: With the General Science Collection, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.

Greenr:(Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) Includes information on the development of emerging green technologies and covers issues on the environment, sustainability and more.

Health & Wellness: Medical reference information for all levels of health research.  Includes information from nearly 400 health/medical journals and over 2,200 general interest publications and many health reference titles. It also incorporates articles on alternative medical topics.  Material contained in this collection is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center: Forty full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.

Home Improvement Collection: Full text articles from nearly 100 home improvement titles for all levels of skill.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure: Coverage includes over 500 industry journals in the hospitality and tourism fields.

Informe: Una colección de revistas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, technologia, cultura, temas de adtualidad y otras matrias.

InfoTrac Newsstand: Search newspaper articles by title, headline, date, or newspaper section. More than 1,000 newspapers are included.

Information Science & Library Issues Collection: Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Information Science & Library Issues Collection.

Insurance & Liability CollectionProtection of assets–physical or intellectual–is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations.

Kids InfoBits (K-5): For beginning researchers. Coverage includes geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more

LegalTrac: Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  Also includes law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

LitFinder

Lit Finder: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

National Geographic for Kids: •200 National Geographic Kids books •500 kid-friendly, downloadable images. Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Information an all aspects of the nursing profession.

Nursing Resource Center: Designed for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts..

Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Opposing Viewpoints In Context answers the call for a better way to explore today’s most hotly debated topics. This next-generation portal delivers a range of perspectives on important issues. Users find a remarkable compilation of proven reference content.

Physical Therapy & Sports MedicinePhysical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.

Pop Culture Collection: Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Popular Magazines: Search for and read articles online from magazines like Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, and archived articles from NPR Special Coverage.

Psychology Collection: This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. You have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals through this online resource.

Research in ContextStudents in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.

Small Business Resource CenterSearch this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Student Resources in Context (Opposing Viewpoints) The one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues. Appropriate for college, high-school, and middle-school students.

U.S. History in Context: More than 185,000 reference articles and over 600,000 periodical articles from magazines like Newsweek, American Heritage, and The Historian; galleries with over 73,000 images and 1,500 seals, maps, and flags; more than 9,100 veiwpoint essays and nearly 5,000 primary documents; and videos and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources.

U.S. History CollectionThe U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, providing full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

War & Terrorism CollectionResearchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

World History Collection: World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Explore the New York Times online without encountering any article limits!

Fine Arts & Music: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in this online resource (such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM), this collection will provide you with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: Art images from contributing museums.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

LitFinder

LitFinder: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Business Collection

Business Collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.

General Business File ASAP: The resources you need for comprehensive business research: full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings and news-wire releases, as well as indexing of three national newspapers. You can tap into the world’s leading business, industry, management, economics, investment and company information.

Small Business Resource Center: Search this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Business Insights: Global

 Business Insights Global: Global Business Insights: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.

Business Economics & Theory Collection: This online collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Communication & Mass Media Collection: From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.

Learning Express Library: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation

Greenr: This resource offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. contains maps, multimedia, case studies and other resources focusing on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. It’s a one-stop resource dedicated to studying sustainability and the environment.

Environmental Studies: Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Agriculture: With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

General Science: With the General Science Collection, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.

Popular Magazines:  Search for and read articles online from magazines like Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, and archived articles from NPR Special Coverage.

Virtual Reference:  A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

InfoTrac Newsstand: Search newspaper articles instantly by title, headline, date, or newspaper section — one-stop source for the day’s news and searchable archives.  A collection of more than 1,000 newspapers with more popular titles going back to 1980.

Oregonian: Oregon news from The Oregonian’s website. Everything from late-breaking news to articles going back five years — your primary news source for local news in Oregon.

New York Times: Daily newspaper.

Oregon Newspapers: Links to local newspapers throughout Oregon, from Albany’s Democrat Herald to Woodburn’s Independent.

General OneFile: Search general topics with this collection of over 6,500 publications with full-text articles, over 124,000 NPR audio files complete with broadcast transcripts, Fodor’s travel guides, links to over 5,000 video files including shows like the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, NRO TV and Meet the Press and over 3,000 other magazines.

Learning Express Library: Online Testing, Skills-Building, and Career Development Tools for All Ages. Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

Health & Wellness Resource Center: Medical reference information for all levels of health research. It includes information from nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, over 2,200 general interest publications, and many health reference titles. It also incorporates articles on alternative topics such as herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, and chiropractic. Material contained in this collection is intended for informational purposes only.

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine

Physical Therapy & Sports MedicinePhysical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

Health Reference Center: Access to 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources. All in a single, easy-to-use online resource, this collection integrates the full-text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

Psychology Collection: This set explores what makes people “tick” from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. You have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals through this online resource.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum

Nursing Resource CenterDesigned for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts Collection offers a smorgasbord of information–more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.

Diversity Studies Collection: A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Fine Arts & Music Collection: The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.

Gender Studies Collection: Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more

Pop Culture Collection: Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

U.S. History Collection: The U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, providing full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

U.S. History in Context: Offering outstanding primary and secondary history sources combined with the media-rich selections that today’s users demand,U.S. History In Context delivers the best titles from Macmillan, Scribner, and other world-class sources.

War & Terrorism Collection: Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

World History Collection: World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Food/Garden

Agriculture Collection: With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture: Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

Repair

Chilton Library: ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.

Home Improvement: Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

Computer

Computer Database: Use this collection to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Informe: Informe es la base de datos de publicaciones iberoamericanas, 95% de las publicaciones están en español, en texto completo y sin periodo de embargo. Posee una amplía cobertura de temas, entre los que se encuentran: política, historia, economía y negocios, humanidades, religión, ciencía, tecnología, ciencias sociales, filosofía, salud, literatura y más.

Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material–not simply translations of English-language materials–on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

LegalTrac: Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in this collection. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, this online resource provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. Also included are law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Criminal Justice: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.

Insurance & Liability Collection: Protection of assets–physical or intellectual–is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. The Insurance & Liability Collection connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.

Business Economics: This online collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Small Business: Search this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Communication & Mass Media: From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.

Computer Database: Use this collection to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Criminal Justice: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.

Educator’s Reference: This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator — from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator’s Reference Complete is the perfect complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty — such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. This collection also covers issues in administration, funding and policy.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure: With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry – including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

Information Science & Library Issues: Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Information Science & Library Issues Collection. It is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

LegalTrac: Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in this collection. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, this online resource provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. Also included are law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles

Nursing Resource Center: Designed for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are even returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process

Nursing: All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Academic OneFile: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, this collection is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Gale Virtual Reference: A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Research in Context: Students in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework. Bringing together content from the former Discovering Collection, Junior Reference Collection, Student Resource Center Jr., InfoTrac Junior Edition, and InfoTrac Junior Graphic Edition, Research In Context is cross-disciplinary in nature—spanning literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history.

InfoTrac Student: Now with over 1100 titles this online collection is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

US History in Context: More than 185,000 reference articles and over 600,000 periodical articles from magazines like Newsweek, American Heritage, and The Historian; galleries with over 73,000 images and 1,500 seals, maps, and flags; more than 9,100 veiwpoint essays and nearly 5,000 primary documents; and videos and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources.

Student Resources (Opposing Viewpoints):This online resource provides a premium selection of reference material with more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia and includes hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

National Geographic for Kids

National Geographic for Kids: Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
Includes:
•National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month embargo)
•200 National Geographic Kids books
•500 kid-friendly, downloadable images

Learning Express: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

Explore for Kids

Junior Reference: Covering subjects such as history, literature, science, social studies, and more, this collection of reference, primary sources, and multimedia content includes audio and video clips and more than 7,400 photographs. New to this service is the popular topic picklists.

Kids Infobits: This portal has been developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

National Geographic For Kids

National Geographic for Kids: National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month embargo) 200 National Geographic Kids books •500 kid-friendly, downloadable images. Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

Novelist for K-8

Novelist for K-8:  Find a good book to read. Find more books like your favorite. Find books about things that you like.

Learning Express: Improve your skills in a variety of subjects.

Learning Express

Learning Express: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

E-Book & Audio

Library E-Books, Audio Books and Magazines are available for download.

Download E-Books and Audio 

Find a Job

Find a job using Glassdoor.

Repair a Car

ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site

Looking for car values? Try Kelly Blue Book Online

Novelist: A Reader’s Advisory

NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations for all ages. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

NoveList K-8 Plus is a trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents & teachers can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

Early Newspaper of Independence

Early Independence newspapers are now online and searchable through the Historic Oregon Newspaper Project at the University of Oregon.
Titles that have been added include:  Issues beyond 1922 are not included in the Historic Newspaper database. Date ranges vary by title.

The Independence Enterprise, the Independence West Side, the West Side Enterprise, and the Independence Monitor

To search individual titles, visit the Historic Newspapers Search Page.

Digitization of these newspapers was made possible by grants from the Polk County Cultural Coalition and matching funding from the Friends of the Independence Public Library.

Magazine & Database

Alphabetical list of available resources

Academic OneFile: Peer reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. Updated daily.

Agriculture Collection: Broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields – from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
Business Collection: provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Business Insights Global: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries
Business Economics: Academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics.
Chilton Library: Automobile repair information.
Communication & Mass Media: Information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include advertising, public relations, literature and writing.
Computer Database: Find computer-related product information, news and reviews.  Includes information on hardware, software, electronics, engineering and communications.
Criminal Justice: 150 Journals covering all aspects of criminal justice.

Culinary Arts: 150 major cooking and nutrition magazines.  Thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews and industry information.

Diversity Studies Collection: A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.

Educator’s Reference: More than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports for educators at all levels.Covers multiple levels of educations from preschool to college. Incudes full text for many of the journals in the ERIC database.

Environmental Studies: Covers environmental issues and police.  Nearly 200 journals providing access to multiple viewpoints.

Fine Arts & Music: More than 100 full-text magazines and journals focusing on areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Encyclopedias and reference resources.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture: Journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping and other areas of horticulture.

Gender Studies Collection: Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society.

General OneFile: Start here for you search on general topics.  Includes a collection of over 6,500 publications.

General Science Collection: With the General Science Collection, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.

Greenr:(Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) Includes information on the development of emerging green technologies and covers issues on the environment, sustainability and more.

Health & Wellness: Medical reference information for all levels of health research.  Includes information from nearly 400 health/medical journals and over 2,200 general interest publications and many health reference titles. It also incorporates articles on alternative medical topics.  Material contained in this collection is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center: Forty full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.

Home Improvement Collection: Full text articles from nearly 100 home improvement titles for all levels of skill.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure: Coverage includes over 500 industry journals in the hospitality and tourism fields.

Informe: Una colección de revistas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, technologia, cultura, temas de adtualidad y otras matrias.

InfoTrac Newsstand: Search newspaper articles by title, headline, date, or newspaper section. More than 1,000 newspapers are included.

Information Science & Library Issues Collection: Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Information Science & Library Issues Collection.

Insurance & Liability CollectionProtection of assets–physical or intellectual–is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations.

Kids InfoBits (K-5): For beginning researchers. Coverage includes geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more

LegalTrac: Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  Also includes law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

LitFinder

Lit Finder: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

National Geographic for Kids: •200 National Geographic Kids books •500 kid-friendly, downloadable images. Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Information an all aspects of the nursing profession.

Nursing Resource Center: Designed for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts..

Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Opposing Viewpoints In Context answers the call for a better way to explore today’s most hotly debated topics. This next-generation portal delivers a range of perspectives on important issues. Users find a remarkable compilation of proven reference content.

Physical Therapy & Sports MedicinePhysical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.

Pop Culture Collection: Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Popular Magazines: Search for and read articles online from magazines like Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, and archived articles from NPR Special Coverage.

Psychology Collection: This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. You have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals through this online resource.

Research in ContextStudents in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.

Small Business Resource CenterSearch this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Student Resources in Context (Opposing Viewpoints) The one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues. Appropriate for college, high-school, and middle-school students.

U.S. History in Context: More than 185,000 reference articles and over 600,000 periodical articles from magazines like Newsweek, American Heritage, and The Historian; galleries with over 73,000 images and 1,500 seals, maps, and flags; more than 9,100 veiwpoint essays and nearly 5,000 primary documents; and videos and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources.

U.S. History CollectionThe U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, providing full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

War & Terrorism CollectionResearchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

World History Collection: World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Explore the New York Times online without encountering any article limits!

Fine Arts & Music: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in this online resource (such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM), this collection will provide you with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: Art images from contributing museums.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

LitFinder

LitFinder: LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

Business Collection

Business Collection provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.

General Business File ASAP: The resources you need for comprehensive business research: full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings and news-wire releases, as well as indexing of three national newspapers. You can tap into the world’s leading business, industry, management, economics, investment and company information.

Small Business Resource Center: Search this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Business Insights: Global

 Business Insights Global: Global Business Insights: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.

Business Economics & Theory Collection: This online collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Communication & Mass Media Collection: From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.

Learning Express Library: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation

Greenr: This resource offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. contains maps, multimedia, case studies and other resources focusing on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. It’s a one-stop resource dedicated to studying sustainability and the environment.

Environmental Studies: Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes nearly 200 journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Agriculture: With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

General Science: With the General Science Collection, researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects covered include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.

Popular Magazines:  Search for and read articles online from magazines like Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, and archived articles from NPR Special Coverage.

Virtual Reference:  A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

InfoTrac Newsstand: Search newspaper articles instantly by title, headline, date, or newspaper section — one-stop source for the day’s news and searchable archives.  A collection of more than 1,000 newspapers with more popular titles going back to 1980.

Oregonian: Oregon news from The Oregonian’s website. Everything from late-breaking news to articles going back five years — your primary news source for local news in Oregon.

New York Times: Daily newspaper.

Oregon Newspapers: Links to local newspapers throughout Oregon, from Albany’s Democrat Herald to Woodburn’s Independent.

General OneFile: Search general topics with this collection of over 6,500 publications with full-text articles, over 124,000 NPR audio files complete with broadcast transcripts, Fodor’s travel guides, links to over 5,000 video files including shows like the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, NRO TV and Meet the Press and over 3,000 other magazines.

Learning Express Library: Online Testing, Skills-Building, and Career Development Tools for All Ages. Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

Health & Wellness Resource Center: Medical reference information for all levels of health research. It includes information from nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, over 2,200 general interest publications, and many health reference titles. It also incorporates articles on alternative topics such as herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, and chiropractic. Material contained in this collection is intended for informational purposes only.

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine

Physical Therapy & Sports MedicinePhysical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

Health Reference Center: Access to 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources. All in a single, easy-to-use online resource, this collection integrates the full-text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

Psychology Collection: This set explores what makes people “tick” from childhood to death. This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops — and diminishes — over time. You have instant access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals through this online resource.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum

Nursing Resource CenterDesigned for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts Collection offers a smorgasbord of information–more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.

Diversity Studies Collection: A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Fine Arts & Music Collection: The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.

Gender Studies Collection: Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more

Pop Culture Collection: Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

U.S. History Collection: The U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, providing full-text, balanced coverage of both current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.

U.S. History in Context: Offering outstanding primary and secondary history sources combined with the media-rich selections that today’s users demand,U.S. History In Context delivers the best titles from Macmillan, Scribner, and other world-class sources.

War & Terrorism Collection: Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

World History Collection: World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Food/Garden

Agriculture Collection: With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Culinary Arts Collection: The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture: Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

Repair

Chilton Library: ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.

Home Improvement: Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

Computer

Computer Database: Use this collection to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Informe: Informe es la base de datos de publicaciones iberoamericanas, 95% de las publicaciones están en español, en texto completo y sin periodo de embargo. Posee una amplía cobertura de temas, entre los que se encuentran: política, historia, economía y negocios, humanidades, religión, ciencía, tecnología, ciencias sociales, filosofía, salud, literatura y más.

Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material–not simply translations of English-language materials–on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

LegalTrac: Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in this collection. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, this online resource provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. Also included are law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Criminal Justice: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.

Insurance & Liability Collection: Protection of assets–physical or intellectual–is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. The Insurance & Liability Collection connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.

Business Economics: This online collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on theoretical topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Small Business: Search this online resource to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Communication & Mass Media: From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.

Computer Database: Use this collection to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Criminal Justice: Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.

Educator’s Reference: This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator — from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator’s Reference Complete is the perfect complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database, because it provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty — such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. This collection also covers issues in administration, funding and policy.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure: With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry – including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

Information Science & Library Issues: Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Information Science & Library Issues Collection. It is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

LegalTrac: Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in this collection. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, this online resource provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. Also included are law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles

Nursing Resource Center: Designed for nursing students, this online resource brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are even returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process

Nursing: All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Academic OneFile: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, this collection is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Gale Virtual Reference: A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Research in Context: Students in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework. Bringing together content from the former Discovering Collection, Junior Reference Collection, Student Resource Center Jr., InfoTrac Junior Edition, and InfoTrac Junior Graphic Edition, Research In Context is cross-disciplinary in nature—spanning literature, science, social studies, and U.S. and world history.

InfoTrac Student: Now with over 1100 titles this online collection is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

US History in Context: More than 185,000 reference articles and over 600,000 periodical articles from magazines like Newsweek, American Heritage, and The Historian; galleries with over 73,000 images and 1,500 seals, maps, and flags; more than 9,100 veiwpoint essays and nearly 5,000 primary documents; and videos and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources.

Student Resources (Opposing Viewpoints):This online resource provides a premium selection of reference material with more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia and includes hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

National Geographic for Kids

National Geographic for Kids: Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
Includes:
•National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month embargo)
•200 National Geographic Kids books
•500 kid-friendly, downloadable images

Learning Express: Interactive online learning site featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification/licensing exam preparation, college and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation.

Explore for Kids

Junior Reference: Covering subjects such as history, literature, science, social studies, and more, this collection of reference, primary sources, and multimedia content includes audio and video clips and more than 7,400 photographs. New to this service is the popular topic picklists.

Kids Infobits: This portal has been developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

National Geographic For Kids

National Geographic for Kids: National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month embargo) 200 National Geographic Kids books •500 kid-friendly, downloadable images. Reputable, authoritative, and appropriate content that brings children aged 6-14 the world in a way they’ve never seen it before. Fun and substantive, National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

Novelist for K-8

Novelist for K-8:  Find a good book to read. Find more books like your favorite. Find books about things that you like.

Learning Express: Improve your skills in a variety of subjects.